Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got .
2 Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful .
3 Nirex anticipates completing plans for the site sometime early next year , when a planning application will be lodged .
4 No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything .
5 The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types .
6 It also includes accepting responsibility for one 's own family , and it is here that the burden of active citizenship is liable to fall disproportionately on women .
7 The aircraft required a compass swing and had oxygen system leaks and because of this Lt Ferris had been required to sign for its release from maintenance , therefore accepting responsibility for his own safety .
8 The process of recovery involves understanding the disease concept and accepting responsibility for future action to keep the disease in remission .
9 Ruggiero does n't accept that , perhaps because it would mean accepting responsibility for the way his son 's turned out . ’
10 In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé .
11 Earlier in the month there had been official denials of allegations of a coup plan which had been reportedly made on Nov. 5 in Washington by Eduardo Molina Olivares , a member of the independent Truth Commission charged under the peace process with ascertaining responsibility for human rights abuses .
12 Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem .
13 Each neighbourhood was assigned a planner who was responsible for notifying neighbourhood residents of planning decisions which were likely to affect them and for channelling requests for action through the appropriate city departments .
14 I am accordingly asking all planning authorities concerned to give this matter further consideration , with a view to submitting proposals for the creation of clearly defined green belts , wherever this is appropriate .
15 So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride .
16 In 1731 the old custom of using Latin for legal records came to an end , but in practice many manorial records were written in English from much earlier times .
17 Our representatives are now canvassing support for that .
18 ‘ They were producing plans for expansion , Ed said .
19 ‘ Unfortunately they 're demanding payment for their services . ’
20 The former soldiers were demanding payment for taking early retirement under Chamorro 's plan which drastically reduced the size of the army .
21 I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased .
22 In rural areas , ANDES members were established as leaders of the radical opposition to the regime and in the 1972 elections were fundamental in organizing support for the opposition coalition , the UNO .
23 The final design and location of the junction between the Outer City Bypass and the trunk road section of the Musselburgh Bypass are matters to be considered jointly by the Regional Council and the Scottish Development Department when finalising proposals for these schemes .
24 Only microscopic number of reproductions hand on the walls of ordinary peoples ' houses , and in terms of the national population those people who really ‘ like ’ them — as opposed to professing admiration for them — must be very much of a minority , so Bacon 's millions must have come from institutions and a very small body of very rich patrons .
25 Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million .
26 Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ .
27 And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further … also demanding protection for the families of murder victims .
28 Those preparing or using illustrations for publication should be trained in computer graphics , to spread the expertise as widely as possible .
29 Scanner technology , linked to graphics software , offers benefits in handling illustrations for publications , and Publications should make use of the colour scanner currently used by scientific staff .
30 It has since been retrospectively enlarged , going back to 1754 for North America , and progressively completing coverage for other countries , particularly European geology .
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